On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Rob MacKillop <luteplay...@googlemail.com> wrote: > There may be one or two of you interested in the banjo c.1860-1900 (as > I am). There was a period of squabbles and unrest as players moved from > fretless instruments to fretted ones. Many of the old (fretless) guys > complained that the new frets forced you to play out of tune. Some > makers responded by manufacturing instruments with split frets, as in > this photo:
For electrical guitars you can get something called, what _is_ it called acutally?, 'wiggly' frets, a set of unequal and bend frets to get the thirds in the most common chords (you need three for the average pop song, right?) better in tune. I don't think I want to hear F-minor on such an instrument. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
